Have fun, Jon <3
Edit: I sometimes keep forgetting the meme communities on Lemmy are incapable of taking things as the joke they are. Y’all worry too much about taking shit seriously. Chill out lol
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- Air mattress and a good sleeping bag.
- Use a candle and a spray. You also shouldn’t get bites inside your tent.
- Fucking how? Also, if your backpack has food, it should either be in your car, suspended in the air between trees or in a locker provided by the campground.
- See 1.
- Tarps exist for several reasons, putting them above your tent and your eating area is one of them.
- Or a cot. I’m a huge cot fan.
Not liking camping without a cot or a backpacking hammock is like saying you don’t like swimming because your jeans get too heavy.
I used to be of the “just sleep on the ground, it feels fine” mindset. Then I turned 30. My back doesn’t like sleeping on the hard ground anymore, but a cot is perfectly comfortable.
But I have jeans. I don’t want to buy, store, or transport the right scuba gear.
Then don’t go scuba diving? And don’t complain about it?
That’s a lot of work when you can just stay home.
Life’s a lot of work when you could just be dead instead
I feel like there’s wiggle room in between the two of those.
Being dead cuts into my masturbation time.
SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!
🖐️🥴
I notice you only held up one hand…
The real question is do you go dominant or off hand?
Holy shit, you’re right!
I gotta go do a thing. We probably won’t talk later.
Do you use the candle and spray as a flamethrower
Only for the big mosquitos
Alaskan SWAT team checking in.
It’s definitely an experience rather than a vacation sort of thing. I like it
I detest camping. I’ve camped in a number of places and it has never been good. I don’t care if it’s the rolling Mongolian steppe greeting me in the morning, it’s still horrible.
I like floors.
Which is why I upgraded to an RV/Camper. The smallest, lightest I can find.
I don’t mind being outside, cooking, eating, everything else. But I want a floor and a bed for sleeping, along with kind-of-solid walls.
That sounds about where I’m at. I’m happy to spend all day outside and I prefer to be barefoot in general. But I want a bit of floor for sleeping on. Far too many nights spent in perpetually soggy tents!
And being able to stand up, fully, to dress/change, or pee in the middle of the night
So many fragile campers in the comments. It’s ok if people don’t like your hobby. They might not find it worth the time, money, and effort to “get good”. You don’t have to defend the things you like from people who aren’t into it.
How dare anyone engage in conversation about the topic of the post! I might accidentally SEE an opinion I disagree with!
That is kinda what it feels like, yeah, that the pro-camp camp can’t accept that some people don’t like camping.
But… that’s not what the discussion or post are about lmao
Oh wow, you’re really passionate about not liking camping.
It’s also entirely reasonable for people to roast you and tell you to git gud when you make a whole ass post about it though. Right?
It’s like those posts about turning 30 and your body falling apart immediately. No, you’re probably doing something very wrong, that’s not normal. We can point you in the right direction and you can choose to ignore it, that’s fine. Nobody’s really being fragile here.
Right, it’s just as silly when I do it as all the commenters come in to defend camping.
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I would normally agree with you on the “get good” sentiment being obnoxious to deal with but…. nature doesn’t fuck around. People who go into the wilderness unprepared can and do die.
It’s not just bears and starvation that can kill you. You can get sick, get infections, get poisoned, get frostbite, hypothermia, heat stroke, and many other afflictions that will either ruin your trip, ruin your life, or kill you if you’re unlucky enough. Even just something as simple as scraping your knee on a rock can give you a staph infection that costs you your leg, a risk that can be averted just by wearing a pair of jeans when walking in the woods.
But besides all that: camping is way more enjoyable when you do some basic research, make a plan, and do the basic preparations you need for the plan to be successful. If you’re not willing to do that then you probably shouldn’t go camping in the first place!
You sound like every other comment I’m talking about. You’re patting yourself on the back and saying um actually camping is fun. Again: you don’t have to defend your hobby from people that don’t like it.
Also, saying you gotta do everything right or die makes camping sound even worse.
The number of times I’ve been camping in 41 years of life can be counted on one hand, so I wouldn’t exactly call it my hobby. Would you care to try again?
Also what’s the big deal with reading about camping safety so that you know to bring a first aid kit, extra warm blankets, pitch your tent on high ground, and any other reasonable measures to keep yourself warm, dry, and reasonably safe from infections or illnesses?
As for “you sound like…” that’s called responding to tone or tone policing. There’s unfortunately far too much of it on Lemmy and it’s a pretty strong sign of its immaturity as a discussion community. Unfortunate!
Allow me to be serious for a moment: That is absolutely not what tone policing is. Please go read this or something a bit more in depth than the wiki article: https://blog.stetson.edu/faculty-engagement/tone-policing/
Tone policing is a much older and more common tactic than that. It’s fallacious because it’s responding to the implied tone of a person’s writing (or their emotions) rather than the specific claims of their argument.
Except this is a comparison to other comments, not the tone of the comment. A crow sounds like a raven in not the same thing as a crow sounds like a jerk/sounds angry and not worth listening to/etc. If that’s confusing, I give up. Tone policing is something used to oppress minorities and crush dissent. Using it to try and win stupid pointless arguments about camping of all things really sqiucks me out.
Not when everything OP mentioned is lack of skills. One thing is to not like camping other is doing it completely wrong…
If you don’t like sounding, is it because of a lack of skill? Because it’s fun actually, you’re just doing it wrong. You should buy the right equipment and learn how to do it right. It’s one thing to not like it, but have you even done it correctly?
Comparing camping to stuffing rods into your cock is such forever indoor Redditor shit and it’s very funny that you don’t get it. Stay beautiful lol.
“Touch grass”
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“Dear god what is he doing with the blades of grass?”
Git gud lol
Where are these comments?
Yeah, that’s a good faith question. Blocking you.
Speaking of fragility
When I was like 7-9 I went on a “camping” trip with my football/soccer team.
Really, we were just putting up tents on the field we usually practiced at after some very tame river rafting.
It was the first time I was away from my parents. And I was inconsolable. I cried most of the night. To the point the supervisors offered to call my parents so I could talk to them. (And mobile phoning someone back then was not cheap),
In the end I just cried myself empty.
Because I was asleep so late, I slept into the morning and my “tent mates” pulled down the tent around me while I was sleeping.
So I woke up in drizzling rain, lying in my sleeping bag on a thin plastic sheet with no tent around me. While all my “friends” were in the club house having breakfast.
I did not stay in the soccer club long after that.
For me, camping is fun the day after I get home and have already had a shower, a good sleep, and put everything away.
Putting stuff away is the worst part, especially if you have to air out wet tarps
Tarps, tent, flys, cleaning coolers and drying them too, re-packing everything in storage if camping isn’t a regular event…yeah. It’s fun, but there’s a reason it’s not super common for most people.
Homelessness, but fun.
Stealth camping is a real thing, where people try to scout spots to stay overnight without getting caught.
But unless it’s coming from a specific part of France, it’s just sparkling homelessness. It’s really just a bunch of rich dudes who like to cosplay as homeless.
Stealth camping is just recreational homelessness
Skill issue
I say the same thing when people say they don’t enjoy taxidermy because of the dead animal aspect.
Tell your friend to gitgud
I used to hate camping for this reason.
Then I learned how to set up a hammock. It’s (roughly) the same amount of effort to set up, but I actually sleep better than in a bed.
I use a portable cot with a mattress pad, it’s quite comfy =)
I love my backpacking cot, sets up in like 2 minutes and I’m off the ground and can lay comfortably anywhere, I like to lay by the fire before bed at night, it’s perfect.
Tangentially related: setting up hammocks in my living room was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It’s so comfortable.
Switching to hammocking made a huge difference for me!
Eventually I did the AT and hammocked almost every night. Only drawback was leaving my pack outside overnight and picking off the spiders and insects in the am.
You mean picking the spiders from you or from your backpack?
I case of the former, there are mosquito nets for hammocks. I use them when I go wild camping with my hammock almost every time.
I’m case of the later, maybe putting on the rain protection might help, as you can pull it off and give it a good shaking in the morning.
Picking them off my pack.
I use a hammock gear hammock, attached bug screen and internal ridge line. So it pops right up as you hang it.
Why not hang your pack to keep it off the ground? I’m assuming you have the ability to do so, since you’re already setting up a hanging hammock. Paracord is cheap and easy to stow in your pack, and you can just tie it around a rock to toss over a tree branch.
I did do that a bit. Generally I preferred to just keep it under the rain fly though to grab stuff if needed. And that makes pack up in the am much quicker anyway.
Ended up just not caring about the insects after the first few weeks.
It’s pretty much the only way I get a decent nights sleep while camping, even with a great air mistress my back gets sore
Yeah, but air mistresses give really good blow jobs! I’ll let myself out…
Would be a flex to summon a giant soft woman to sleep on while camping, wizard goals
“Single white wizard looking to conjure a woman from thin air. Thin being the key word, no fatties. Must love pondering orbs and long beards.”
Wizard wants ads is a pretty great image skip to
“Contracts are so restrictive, we think of it closer to friends with benifits”
I hate camping too lol, but I like staying in nature in a little cabin or lodge haha
Camping is a blast. Pair it with fishing for a really good time
I like to set my tent up in the lowest elevation spot I can find too.
I live in the PNW, it’s like nature conjures up rain clouds to place directly over any campsite. People here act like the rain makes it better and will tell you to bring your own blue skies, a blue tarp to hang over all your stuff
This is why you day hike and sleep in a hotel.
Jon suchs at camping LOL
